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• Training Day: Mastering the 12-lead

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  Tips for training EMS providers on interpreting a 12-lead, from studying EKG renderings and understanding their clinical significance

• EKG interpretation checklists

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  Here are the EKG Club's recommended steps for interpreting cardiac rhythms and 12-lead EKGs

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  Patient handovers: 10 things you need to know to save lives

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  What EMS providers need to know and do to avoid serious breakdowns in the continuity of care

• Sinus tach or SVT? 4 clues to tell the difference

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  Instead of "rules" you have been taught to distinguish sinus tach and SVT, follow these assessment and ECG interpretation tips

• Cardioversion of firefighter-paramedic after on-duty episode of atrial fibrillation

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  A Nevada FF/Pararmedic John Hawkins shared this video of being being cardioverted after an episode of atrial fibrillation.

• Capnography: A vital sign for every EMS patient

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  Monitoring ETCO2 with waveform capnography gives EMS providers real-time feedback to make treatment decisions and improve care for a multitude of medical problems and traumatic injuries

• Ky. agency awarded grant for heart monitors

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  The agency will receive four new heart monitors, which cost roughly $36,000 a piece

• Animation: Conduction of electrical impulses through the heart

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  Watch this video to better understand or teach EMT and paramedic students how electrical impulses are conducted through cardiac tissue.

• Remember 2 Things: How to auscultate an accurate blood pressure

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  In this episode of Remember 2 Things learn how to auscultate an accurate blood pressure during a patient assessment. Whitehead discusses the importance of having the patient uncross their legs and why the patient's arm should be at the same level as their heart.  After watching Remember 2 Things, read these top EMS1 articles on blood pressure assessment. 

  • Blood pressure reading tips and tricks for EMS
  • 5 errors that are giving you incorrect blood pressure readings
  • How to auscultate a patient's blood pressure

• 12-Lead ECG case: When is a heartbeat not a mechanical heartbeat?

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  Learn to distinguish and verify electrical and mechanical capture when using a transcutaneous pacemaker on a patient with symptomatic bradycardia

• Remember 2 Things: How to monitor violent, restrained patients

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  In this episode on patient restraint Steve Whitehead describes the importance of capnography to monitor violent patients who have been restrained. Whitehead also discusses the importance of temperature assessment and monitoring.

• Report: Almost half of heart attacks are 'silent'

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  Each year more than 700,000 Americans have heart attacks and about 120,000 people die from them

• 12-Lead ECG case: Is this a STEMI?

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  Review the subtle signs of an acute ST-elevation MI with this case of a man presenting with "heavy" chest pain

• SC fire and rescue dept. gets grant for cardiac monitors

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  The funds will allow the purchase of 12 new cardiac monitors

• How to recognize left bundle branch block

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  Learn how to recognize a Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB) in this video tutorial. After watching read and review this 12-Lead ECG case: Elderly man presents with CHF, hypertension and dyspnea.

• Top 5 EMS training videos of 2015

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  ECG acquisition, 12-lead mapping and airway management were your favorites

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